“Entertainment (Blood Orange Remix)” [ft. MKS]

Meaning looms beneath the surface of Phoenix's songs, thanks to Thomas Mars' oblique proclamations on love and art and the rest of it. So there's a lot of room for interpretation; Dinosaur Jr.'s recent take on "Entertainment", the first single to be released from Phoenix's forthcoming LP Bankrupt!, turned it into a creaking, sad-sacky bar ballad full of regret, hung up on the line about how "once upon a time would take too long, long, long"-- as if Mascis knows there's not much sense waiting for a fairytale romance.

But for fans of British pop circa the early 2000s, Blood Orange's remix of "Entertainment" forms the latest chapter in another seemingly improbable story: repurposed as a Chromatics-worthy slow jam with a Prince-priapic guitar solo at the end, Dev Hynes' redux is his second to feature the immaculate vocal harmonies of Mutya Keisha Siobhan-- the original, recently reunited Sugababes-- which sound as spontaneous and arresting as if you'd caught them singing it on a street corner. On their redux of Kendrick Lamar's "Swimming Pools (Drank)", Mutya Buena improvised verses about pleasing herself when it came to making music. Here, the trio caw on the lines, "Show them what you do with me/ When everyone here knows better," another strike for their solidarity following years of much publicized and exaggerated fallouts.